US Patent Issued to PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Bridge device having data monitoring function and USB to UART converter having the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,648, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PROLIFIC TECHNOLOGY INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Bridge device having data monitoring function and USB to UART converter having the same" was invented by Tien-Wei Yu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun-Shiu Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge device having data monitoring function is disclosed. The bridge device can be made to be an integrated circuit (IC) chip, so as to be disposed on a circuit board with a USB connector and a UART connector, thereby forming a USB to UART converter. When using the USB to UART converter, the USB connector is connected to a host computer, and the UART ...